Rubik's 360 Puzzle Ball

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Mechanically identical to the 3×3×3 cube. It does, however, have an interesting difference in its solution. The vertical corner columns are different colours to the faces and do not match the colours of the vertical face columns. The corner columns can therefore be placed in any corner. On the face of it, this makes the solution easier, however odd combinations of corner columns cannot be achieved by legal moves. The solver may unwittingly attempt an odd combination solution, but will not be aware of this until the last few pieces.

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Overall, this is not a bad workaround. The contents of the clipboard are preserved and the delay is much less noticeable if you employ the code provided in Shane's second comment.

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Find a group of 4 interior pieces that need to switch locations. For instance, say the blue face is facing you, with the yellow face above and the purple face below it. However, say there’s a yellow interior piece below the blue center and a purple one above it, as well as blue interior pieces at the bottom of the yellow face and the top of the purple face. In this case, you need all 4 of these interior pieces to switch locations. [6] X Research source Shane later left a second comment, this time with the intent of minimizing the runtime of the script. In some cases, using R2-U-R2-U will not only put the interior pieces in the proper vicinity, but also place them in the correct face as well (for example, yellow into yellow). Simpler to solve than the standard cube in that only the algorithms for the corner pieces are required. It is nevertheless surprisingly non-trivial to solve. If using the previous example, replace the first line with: set savedClipboard to my fetchStorableClipboard()

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Create 2 matching pairs from 4 adjacent corners. The goal here is to have 2 corners (separated only by 1 side piece) of a face both be a single color (for example, red), and the 2 adjacent corners of an adjacent face both be another single color (for example, yellow). [2] X Research source This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Christopher M. Osborne, PhD. Christopher Osborne has been a wikiHow Content Creator since 2015. He is also a historian who holds a PhD from The University of Notre Dame and has taught at universities in and around Pittsburgh, PA. His scholarly publications and presentations focus on his research interests in early American history, but Chris also enjoys the challenges and rewards of writing wikiHow articles on a wide range of subjects. Find other sets of interiors to switch with R2-U-R2-U. For instance, you may find the same scenario you had with the yellow-blue-purple faces, this time by reorienting the ball so you have the red face above and the orange face below the blue face. Turn the ball up 90 degrees (¼ turn) so the orange face is towards you, then repeat the R2-U-R2-U algorithm to put the interior pieces in the proper vicinity. [9] X Research source

Some would not count this as a combinational puzzle though it bears the Rubik name. Also known as Rubik's Twist. There is no one solution to this puzzle but multiple different shapes can be made. [11] For example, with the green face above the purple face, you might find that the bottom interior piece of the green face is purple, and the top interior piece of the purple face is green. This could be the first of your 8 mismatched pairs to fix. This is the 4-dimensional analog of a cube and thus cannot actually be constructed. However, it can be drawn or represented by a computer. Significantly more difficult to solve than the standard cube, although the techniques follow much the same principles. There are many other sizes of virtual cuboid puzzles ranging from the trivial 3×3 to the 5-dimensional 7×7×7×7×7 which has only been solved twice so far. [1] However, the 6×6×6×6×6 has only been solved once, since its parity does not remain constant (due to not having proper center pieces)